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For the love of god, can someone explain who created god?

9-10ths_Penguin

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For the love of god, can someone explain who created god?
God existed before time.....He created everything that is created.

There's no such thing as "before time." For there to be a "before," there has to be time.

I think that people tend to debate and try to figure out things that have no explanation. It is more practical to try and figure out why Adam called a cow a cow and a bird a bird. When God had him name all animals why was a lion named a lion, where did he come up with all of those names?????
Gen. 2:19, So out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
I think it's obvious enough why God had Adam name the animals: the story is a just-so story and one of the things the story is trying to explain is how animals got their names.

The more interesting part (IMO) to that story is what's referred to in the verses immediately before and after the one you quote: why the animals were created. God created them as potential partners - wives, effectively - for Adam. The story explains (in verse 18) that God considered all of them suitable partners for Adam ("a companion that corresponds to him," as the NET puts it). It was only after Adam didn't find that any were to his liking that God resorted to a backup plan: creating Eve.

... but according to the story, God's Plan A (and B, C, D, etc.) for Adam was some sort of bestiality. Considering how the culture that created the story had strong taboos against bestiality, I find this aspect of the story surprising.
 
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